his head, harry is thkg that all he o fd hi, to lear the dt and debris off drao’s fae and rh hi to his hest, hold hi a hi go but when he does fd hi, half pullg hi out of the disaster befrabs harry uhe ars and pulls hi away, it does not help, beae even though harry had seen a lot of awful thgs, this ight have to be the worst
≈ryg to talk to hi harry knows that, dily, even reognizes her words, but he doesen “this is a job for a healer, harry,” she is sayg, and pery has grabbed hi by one ar and roher and they are pullg hi away, but harry isg, beae all he is lookg at is drao, with the blood snakg down fro his teple a on his fae ahg so harsh and loud that it ight be better if he ould he breath at all, beae at least it would not sound like he was so uh pai do y job”
≈ops fightg when gee joi say t for the fat that if there is ohe s what is like to lose soo is so ual to your ow is gee harry an’t iagi he would ask hi to step away if there was a way for harry to help
“she’s gog to take are of hi” pery tells hi, his jaw set and his fae sared with blood ter, harry would learn that it ery’s ow hi with ahe fae whe tried to pull harry away “she’s the best at her job”
for the first ti, harry an truly appreiate pery and what he ae all his pop, he really is ohe rare people life who are able to walk teny and ontrol a roo, who an look at a situatio o be do lie, a have uh patiene for people he onsiders i, so whehat his girlfrie her job, it isery, it’s the best words of ofort he an thk of givg
“okay” harry says, and sks down to the ground there is a hand on his shoulder and he knows with that it is herione, beae he ahe weight of it fro so any yearshi bak and holdg hi up he raises his o to et her, and annot fio ask if she was alright, even though he hopes that she is “okay”
“hey” gny throws herself down on the grouhey’re bak so hallway iry that pery had led hi t to sehey have news drao was at st ungo’s a agi dued oa, and was oanyti soon, sothat it ortant for hi to head ht away “thought you ight want this”
she’s holdg his wand out to hi harry had to go after it if soo hi, he art with his bare hahey were “yeah” the weight of it akes hi feel better
“we’re goihe, if you want to o” she is dressed what gee had le aror—obat boots and ah a path over the elbow, fiher duelg gloves and her hair pulled up a tight ponytail “the people who did this, i an”
“you thihe?”
≈ ied it, if they ouldhe, if he ouldhe hurt like they hurt drao
“i thihe one who dropped the haold a lot” gny flexes her fgers, ai, harrysk on her knukles she is starg down at her hahough she wasn’t sorry, she ouldn’t quite believe that this ersouro “i ersuasive”
harry thought about it, a so ore he ould stay here, sittg iy hallway, ao sittiable hair a slightly leaner hallway st ungo’s or he ould go fight, ake soone pay, ake the hurt he had his wand bak, after all
and he was done feelg helpless
chapter 31
drao
one, when drao was seven years old, when he was sall and srawny and still hado e the p right beh his sk, he had walked to the edge of his neighbor’s pond a alooes skig the surfae of the ud and uk like it was sa his other had told hi not to go i was dirty, and his father said that it was gero, jt as derelit ahe neighbor’s hoe was, but drao had thought that it would be fun to go to a forbidde o was fun, uepped forward onto the bank jt a bit too far, ehe wave of the otherwise still water that was only the bekong of a grdyloled
≈ swi
it was stra ohkg of all the thgs that he ould do, all the people that his father had paid to teah hi—the leage of old hoes, viol, alligraphy, ihat he was ie ger, he ouldhow to ove his ars or kik out with his legs well en hiself bak to the surfae there was only darknessup all the light and weeds brhg at his heels aion buildg up side hi, where he would kik up off the urky botto of the pond and burst i jt long enough for one lifegivih of air before the depths pulled hi bak da
tryg towas sothi
but he does , eventually, after what t have been h and out of onsioness, where he would opeo be blihe light and taken abak by the fire his ire body ahed, ahough eah ti there were voies he